Crossword-Solution: SCARIFY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scarify | v. t. | To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein. |
| Scarify | v. t. | To stir the surface soil of, as a field. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCARIFY | anagram | SACRIFY |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SCARIFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| scratch or cut slightly all over | 1 answer |
| Make shallow cuts in the skin | 1 answer |
| Make cutting marks | 1 answer |
| Break up, as a road | 1 answer |
| Break up a road | 1 answer |
| Make cutting remarks about | 2 answers |
| Scratch the surface of | 3 answers |
| Severely criticize | 3 answers |
| flay | 22 answers |
| Incise | 25 answers |
| Scare ___ | 33 answers |
| Rend | 34 answers |
| Lash | 42 answers |
| Scar | 49 answers |
| Lambaste | 51 answers |
| Loosen | 73 answers |
| Scratch | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEAZEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCARIFY (5)
Tom contrived to scarify the cupboard with it, and was arranging to begin on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for Sunday-school.
Often a devoted mother would scarify her arms or legs; a sister or a young wife would cut off all her beautiful hair and disfigure herself by undergoing hardships.
Tie a ligature tightly ABOVE the bite, scarify the wound deeply with a knife, and allow it to bleed freely.
Let your worship order it so that we pass it out of doors and in the open air, and I’ll scarify myself.” Night, longed for by Don Quixote with the greatest anxiety in the world, came at last, though it seemed to him that the wheels of Apollo’s car had broken down, and that the day was drawing itself out longer than usual, just as is the case with lovers, who never make the reckoning of their desires agree with time.
Why do you scarify His works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry?” “Why, Andy,” says he, “they’ve elected me justice of the peace since you left.” I looked at Mack close.
Quotes with SCARIFY (1)
All the best women are married, yes, they are - to all the worst men' There was an infinite slow caress in her tone but she went on rapidly 'So I shall never marry you. How should I marry a kind man, a good man? I am a barbarian, and want a barbarian lover, to crush and scarify me, but you are so tender and I am so crude. When your soft eyes look on me they look on a volcano.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1997–2016).